The Importance of Gender in Grammar

David J. Peterson's Dothraki has inanimate, inanimate gender. Sometimes the only way to mark gender is on a dependent or something. If you find yourself producing a series of grammatical things and they're all the same syllabic length, that's when you should stop and think. Don't do what the language we're about to talk about does - which is let's present is I know present is a past is I future is oh no, please do not do that. You can go completely bonkers with that.